What is politics? What are elections?For all their faults and failings,these are the methods by which weresolve conflicts and decide ourcollective national or state ormunicipal course of action,short of war.

What do you get when you refuse to let a patient, reasonable, well-armed majority order a course change by winning an election?by Vin Suprynowiczvin@catscuriosities.com

Special to L. Neil Smith’sThe Libertarian Enterprise

Far-left activist and Charlottesville Democrat
mayor Michael Signer, already infamous for recommending
Charlottesville should be a “sanctuary” for illegal alien felons, for
declaring in January that Charlottesville is the “Capital of the
Resistance” to duly elected President Donald Trump, and for having
police remove anyone who challenges him by speaking up during City
Council meetings, now aims to remove all traces of the fact that
patriotic Virginians fought for their right to
self-determination—their right to secede from the union—150 years
ago.

That caused some blowback (as did his failed
“Muslim sanctuary” plan), so the mayor promptly blamed his city’s
recent violent troubles on Donald Trump, of course, recycling the
tired cliché that the New York developer (who has never been shown to
have discriminated against blacks or any other minority in hiring or
in customer service at any point in his 50-year business career) is a
“racist.”

But who is it who has aimed to push the far-left
agenda even further than it’s ever been pushed before, to destroy the
proud martial culture of the southland, stripping the South even of
its time-honored war memorials?

The radical, shameless, America-hating Left, of course.

The Civil War was not fought to end slavery.

Lincoln promised repeatedly and publicly, even in
his First Inaugural address, to let the South keep their slaves, if
only they would stay in the Union.

Does that sound like he wanted to end slavery?
Unless “Honest Abe” was lying through his teeth, of course. Please
choose one: a) was happy to see slavery continue in the South; b) was
a liar of monstrous and homicidal proportions.

(OK; we’ll allow “Both.”)

Furthermore, Lincoln (surely an “illegitimate”
president, a railroad lawyer pretenduing to be a simple country boy,
“elected” in a polling in which not a single woman and surely no more
than a handful of blacks were allowed to vote!) said intermarriage
between the races was an abomination, and wanted to see America’s
free blacks resettled somewhere in Central America. (Of course, given
that black activists now demand a new segregation, insisting that all
white folk are evil and that none shall attend their gatherings,
maybe Old Abe was just ahead of his time.)

No, the Civil War was about whether states which
had freely entered the union had a right to secede (of course they
do), and secondarily about the monstrous and prohibitive protective
tariffs favored by the northern industrialists, which forced
southerners to buy overpriced Northern goods rather than cheaper
imported goods, and sparked retaliatory tariff wars which damaged the
profitability of Southern agricultural exports.

Even Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation”—which
he admitted to supporters at the time was a mere political
gimmick—“freed” only those slaves over whom he had no authority—those
within the Confederacy—while leaving his own generals free to
continue to use slave labor to harvest the lucrative cotton crops in
Texas and Arkansas and parts of Mississippi. (The Yankees promised
them some minimal wages—and then cheated them.)

The extremist, far-Left,
ignore-the-facts-at-all-costs media tell us “white supremacists”
aimed to rally in Charlottesville this weekend to protest the planned
removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.

OK, it appears there may well have been some
fringe “white supremacists” in Charlottesville Saturday—just as the
presence of Black Lives Matter to stage a counter-protest guarantees
us there were also some “black supremacists” present. Search the
weekend work product of CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and the
Washington Post and let me know how many times the phrase “black
supremacists” shows up.

You don’t have to be a “white supremacist” to
apply for a lawful permit to stage (or simply to attend) a rally
protesting the purposeful desecration of a memorial to Southern
martial culture and the right to liberty and self-determination, a
memorial honoring an indisputably great man and war hero (even if Lee
should have liastened to Longstreet at Gettysburg and moved to place
his forces between Meade and Washington City.) Nor does anyone in the
less and less “mainstream” media have any right to use “white
supremacists” as a blanket label for any and all Americans who wish
to preserve and honor that heritage and tradition, objecting to the
PC gang’s attempt to rewrite our history.

Mayor Signer and his radical cohorts changed the
protesters’ permit, instructing them to rally only in a different
park, far away from the statue in question. Heck, why didn’t they
just instruct them to stage their rally in Guam? Fortunately, the
ACLU sued, the courts intervened, and the permit was granted for the
proper park—the one with the statue. So why did police funnel the
law-abiding demonstrators directly past the violent Communist
thugs—the so called “Antifa” and Black Lives Matter
“counter-demonstrators” (who had not bothered to apply for any
permits), allowing the troublemakers to start the violence, as
reported to Brietbart News by a Finnish national who attended the
rally with friends out of concern about “the rewriting of history”?
Remember Berkeley? Could it be these leftist politicians WANT
violence?

The so-called “Antifa” protesters are basically
black-clad communists throwing rocks and bottles, spraying people in
the face with pepper spray, all the crap the Left has been doing ever
since the night Trump was elected, nine months ago. (It appears they
actually brought homemade flamethrowers to Charlottesville.) And the
response is to “condemn the violence on all sides”?

Of course President Trump had no choice but to
say that. If he’d said one word about the right of Virginians to
peacefully protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue by
America-hating leftists, the braying lapdog “we’re so holy” press
would of course have chanted in unison “That proves he’s a racist
like we’ve been telling you! He wants to reinstate slavery!”

(Never mind the fact that the 13th amendment
banned slavery for only 46 years. “Slavery” is the condition under
which the law holds certain classes of persons owe some portion of
their lives, their labor, and the fruits of that labor to a master,
no matter whether we call that master “massa” or “Uncle Sam.” With
the (supposed) 1913 ratification of Lincoln’s federal income
tax—previously and properly held to be unconstitutional—slavery
returned to these shores … for everyone. See Burton Folsom’s
“Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men”—or any of Tom DiLorenzo’s
eye-opening books on the Tyrant Lincoln.)

(As per correction below [not included here—Editor], the book
“Emanipating Slaves …” is actually by historian Jeffrey Rogers
Hummel, Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Associate
Professor of Economics at San Jose State University.—V.)

They seek to undo the election

But in fact, condemning “everyone” is like
walking into Warsaw in October of 1939 and saying “These Poles and
Germans have been fighting! They both need to be condemned and
punished!”

No, the German invaded Poland; the Poles tried to
defend themselves. Only the Germans needed to be condemned and
punished. The schoolmarm’s answer—separate the boys and punish them
both—may seem simpler to the bureaucratic mind, which makes no
distinctions between “right” and “wrong”, “moral” and “immoral,” but
it’s not Justice. Justice involves the more painstaking and difficult
process of determining who started it.

Who went to Charlottesville Saturday with the
purpose of using violence to suppress the free-speech rights of
others?

What is politics? What are elections? For all
their faults and failings, these are the methods by which we resolve
conflicts and decide our collective national or state or municipal
course of action, short of war.

Is anyone paying attention, here? “Short of war.”
The last resort “short of war.”

Nine months ago, American elected Donald Trump
because he promised to substantially limit immigration—especially by
Muslims, the majority of whom want to force us to bow to Sharia
law—to build a border wall, to roll back the absurdities of the
Global-Warming Green Gaia Religion being imposed on us as a state
religion by the EPA in violation of the First Amendment, to hose out
the stables of “campaign contribution” corruption in Washington, to
oppose the far-left Democrat “public-school-and-health-care” agenda
that would see all out children converted into sterile, whining,
defenseless hermaphrodites.

But Michael Signer’s far-left radical activists
and their braying lapdog media will not accept that decision, that
judgment of the majority of the people in the vast majority of the
states.

No, they believe they can remove a duly elected
president, meanwhile stalling his agenda by “resist resist resist,”
refusing to approve even his routine appointments, preventing him
from going about the peaceful and orderly business of setting a new
agenda for the sundry federal agencies and departments, until their
bizarre and long-since-disproven “The Russians stole the election”
narrative can succeed in removing Trump from office, which their
spokeswoman Maxine Waters now tells us will be achieved by
Christmas.

Once again, what are politics and elections?
Methods short of war and violence for the people to demand a course
change.

And if a minority refuses to acknowledge the
propriety of that binding outcome—refuses to allow the majority of
the people in the majority of the states to effect reasonable,
moderate change at the polls? What option remains to those
frustrated, peaceful voters?

Our left-wing college campuses now offer courses
on how people should feel Ashamed to be White, on “White Guilt and
Privilege,” now insist that applications for many grants and
scholarships should be open only to racial minorities and to illegal
immigrants—not to white American citizens and especially white and
Asian males.

(Yes, these “Progressives” even discriminate,
massively and unapologetically, against ASIANS. Why? Because Asians
work too hard and do too well in school, of course, which “isn’t
fair.”)

The grandparents and great-grandparents of many
“white Americans” came here after slavery was abolished, and worked
hard to succeed despite virulent prejudice against Jews, Italians,
Irish—I’ll refrain from lostings all the racial epithets.

It appears these leftist America-haters really
want a race and culture war. Have they stopped to count who has the
most guns? They think victory generally goes to the whiners, who
require “safe rooms” with cuddle dolls when they “feel offended?” And
this is what they have made of the grandchildren and
great-grandchildren of the men who captured Iwo Jima, stormed Utah
Beach, and crossed the Rapido and the Rhine?

For thousands of years—probably longer—men have
raised livestock and tended fields, storing their surplus to feed
their families through the winter, selling the excess to exchange for
the goods of manufacturers and tradesmen.

For thousands of years—probably longer—barbarians
have roamed the horizon, hoping to steal those civilized men’s
cattle, eat the food in their granaries, rape their wives and
daughters, get children on them or sell them into slavery. And
through all that time, men have known they had to be ready, at some
point, to fight to defend what they’d gained through their labors.

Washington and Jefferson and James Monroe knew
it. Robert E. Lee knew it.

Why do some civilizations fall? Watch Western
Europe, which is about to fall. If the Muslims again poured over the
horizon by the thousands on horseback, waving swords and shrieking
their desire to kill, rape or seize everything in their paths,
Europe’s men might—might—still fight back.

But I doubt it.

Sometime in the past century, while no one was
looking, it appears someone cut off those men’s balls. Now, so long
as the tens and hundreds of thousands of invaders whine “We’re just
defenseless refugees; you have to let us settle here; you have to
give us free housing and food because we’re pathetic. And by the way,
you have to let us build a mosque and you have to ban alcohol and
make it a crime to insult our prophet or to try to convert a Muslim
to Christianity, and you have to start wrapping up your women in
burkas and hajibs and habobs and haboobs to avoid offending us or
else we’ll rape them,” the men of Europe (if there are any left) … do
nothing.

The mayors and heads of government of Germany and
France and Scandinavia—can it really be a coincidence that so many of
them are women, or pussy boys?—or Muslims, already?—insist they must
accommodate, placate, appease these invaders. Well, OK, perhaps we
could hand out a pamphlet, explaining that rape isn’t nice.

It worked out so well for Neville Chamberlain.

‘We are never, ever going to let you
build your stupid wall!’

Americans saw what’s happening there, and voted
that it’s not going to happen here. But the leftists have had things
all their way for 50 years—have pushed their agenda further and
further, WAY beyond mere racial equality and tolerance, with which
the vast majority of Americans were fine.

At this point, they can’t BELIEVE their side is
allowed to ever lose. After all, they’ve got the New York Times and
the Washington Post on their side! Compared to that, what’s a little
technicality like every state from Pennsylvania to Arizona going
Republican?

(Am I saying we shouldn’t be tolerant of Islam?
Absolutely. Of course there are folks of Middle Eastern EXTRACTION
who have come here and become good and loyal Americans, embracing our
cherished tradition of the separation of religion and state. They’re
welcome. But the kind of people who bombed the Boston Marathon, shot
up the Pulse Nightclub, folks like the repulsive “aggrieved” Muslim
Nidal Malik Hasan, who accepted American taxpayer assistance to get
his medical degree, then used his status as an Army Major to murder a
dozen of the very men he was sworn to care for? Once these barbarians
publicly remove from their holy book—which is in fact a doctrine for
armed conquest—all the stuff about killing and torturing
“non-believers” who refuse to convert, ripping their bellies open
with hot irons and the like—once they apologize for that crap,
acknowledge their “prophet” was one sadistic pervert who married
little girls, and convince us they have no intention of spreading his
poisonous doctrine of violent conquest any further, we can talk.)

The Left now refuse to acknowledge the American
people have called for a major change of course. All they have to do,
they’re convinced, is to “get Trump” with some absurd manufactured
narrative about “the Russians stealing the election,” and those who
voted for Trump will shrug and go, “Oh well, tough luck, we tried,”
and everything will go back to The Way It Was—the Hillary-Obama race
to cultural suicide instantly restored, open borders and mosques
replacing churches on every town green and abortion as the preferred
method of birth control to quickly thin out the descendants of those
who settled this land in the 17th and 18th and 19th and early 20th
Centuries, all our remaining children and grandchildren shot up with
hormones to turn them into “transgendered” hermaphrodites to end
America’s “evil, oppressive, male-dominated warlike culture” …

… for a few decades, anyway, till America falls
under the complete sway of the Muslims’ far more male-dominated, far
more warlike, far more repressive and anti-feminist and homophobic
9th Century culture, which recognizes NO SEPARATION OF RELIGION AND
STATE, an idea that didn’t gain currency in the civilized (that is to
say, non-Muslim) world till the 1700s.

“We are never, ever going to let you build your
stupid wall!” shouted Elizabeth Warren, the fake Native American
leftist academic from Massachusetts, at a campaign speech this
weekend.

OK, I think I’ve got this straight. The people
voted for the wall. But The Left says we’re not allowed to change
course on important issues like the Open Borders promoted by Barack
Hussein Obama, the son of Communists who bowed to the king of Arabia
and wrote that the Muslim call to prayer is “the most beautiful sound
I ever heard,” by going to the polls and winning an election.

So: Someone needs to remind prancing poseurs like
Miss Warren that elections and politics exist to allow the people to
change the nation’s course without resorting to war and death and
violence.

You know: the kind of shooting war that
Democratic activist James T. Hodgkinson already launched back on June
14—widely cheered by the Leftists in Hollywood and in the media—when
he opened fire on the Republican congressional softball team in
Alexandria, Virginia, intending murder, as his answer to an election
result he didn’t like.

If these insane Leftist extremists refuse to bow
to the electoral process and the will of the majority of the people
in the majority of the states—if they ignore and contradict Hillary
Clinton’s own words during the final presidential debate last
October, when she lectured us: “That’s horrifying. That’s not the way
our democracy works. We’ve been around 240 years. We’ve had free and
fair elections and we’ve accepted the outcomes when we may not have
liked them” … then the people who were patient and waited and went to
the polls and successfully voted for a change of course and are now
being stymied and frustrated, refused the just reward for their right
and proper, their peaceful and deliberate actions, have only one
remaining recourse.

What The Left and their “Antifa” gangs are
telling us, in fact, is that they intend to LEAVE US no other
option.

If they’re not going to allow us to accomplish
any substantial change by winning elections, they must mean they want
us to employ the only other option they’ve left us:

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